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Man remember when people were fear mongering about ObamaCare panel doctors decided that grandma needed to die?
I remember when I was little, and I watched The Great Mouse Detective. I think the villain said something about how old people and children need to pay their fair share or something. I remember thinking how that didn’t make any sense. Why would you try to make children and old people work? Sometimes I miss being that naive.
How do the elderly vote in america? Here in the UK the pensioners are overwhelmingly right wing but if you came after them like this you’d see that change pretty quick. Explicitly threatening their lives would be a dealbreaker to a lot of them.
Our elderly are some of the most propagandized people. They are also the only people left with any protections and money. Most of them are to far gone before this stuff affects them, the rest are poor and to busy hissing at people like me to accept help. Then there are the few who are just normal people and they have to worry about the future for their children and grandchildren. Seeing the eyes of an elderly person who sees what is coming for us is…something I’ll tell you.
A lot of elderly people here, think they are “the good ones” and everything bad happens to “other people,” and if it happens to them then it is a mistake and still don’t really worry about it. It’s kind of hard to explain the level of thick they can be.
They are by far the most incoherent demographic. People who live off of pensions and social security but will scream about how communism and socialism is only advocated for by leeches. Never once do they think about how nice it would have been to have that money when they were younger, because everything was much cheaper for them.
Explicitly threatening their lives would be a dealbreaker to a lot of them.
But it’s America - baby. They love the GOP. Like many Americans they vote against their own interests.
4. Age, generational cohorts and party identification
APRIL 9, 2024
Among voters ages 60 and older, the GOP holds a clear advantage:
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Republican alignment is 10 percentage points higher than Democratic alignment (53% vs. 43%) among voters in their 60s.
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Voters ages 70 to 79 are slightly more likely to be aligned with the GOP (51%) than the Democratic Party (46%).
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About six-in-ten voters 80 and older (58%) identify with or lean toward the GOP, while 39% associate with the Democratic Party.
I didn’t check for any 2026 stuff. Google was annoying and shitty also clickbait(-y) stuff annoys the hell out of me.
Ninja edit. Also - a lot of voters aren’t aware of the healthcare/SNAP time bomb that goes off after the elections. The horrible cuts to Medicaid (for poor Americans) and SNAP (aka food stamps) in Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill. This is a list…
Medicaid restrictions and funding cuts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Big_Beautiful_Bill_Act#Medicaid_restrictions_and_funding_cuts
The following list is for SNAP but it’s incredibly confusing.
Republican alignment is 10 percentage points higher than Democratic alignment (53% vs. 43%) among voters in their 60s.
Voters ages 70 to 79 are slightly more likely to be aligned with the GOP (51%) than the Democratic Party (46%).
Huh that’s interesting, nowhere near what I thought it would be actually. The over 60s are waaaay further right here.
I don’t know anything about politics in other countries but measured by a global metric the US must be pretty weird. For decades the GOP has been toxic to everybody except the (extremely) rich and they still manage to win elections and control many states. Meanwhile the democrats are failing stupendously. They are historically unpopular right now.
Of course the dem response as been to keep doing exactly the same thing and focus on their messaging to get themselves out of that hole. But it hasn’t worked at all so in some congressional races - they are supporting independents in the idiotic hope if those candidates win - they will vote for dem stuff. Great plan!
My favorite voting area is New England. New Englander’s sense of pretend rugged individualism is comical to me. Many candidates need to market themselves as “independent” even though that’s a ridiculous lie. The best example is Bernie. For his entire political life going back many decades he’s effectively been a democrat even though he’s technically an independent.
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How do the elderly vote in america?
Pretty sure they still vote republican.
It’s probably more expensive to keep this guy, the healthiest man in the world, alive than all hospice care patients in the country combined
Nah roadkill and magnesium supplements are cheap enough
I know the democrats make more money out of being the opposition party, but November and 2028 could be literally the easiest layups ever, all they have to do is hold a mirror up to this shit, but they won’t, and these elections will probably be close.
Hakeem Jeffries and Schumer are making sure it will be close. The way they went from “these elections are the most important thing ever and shouldn’t be risked” to immediately sabotaging candidates like Abdul El-Sayed felt like crazy whiplash.
“We have massive momentum and Republicans have nothing to campaign on besides Trump’s failures, but it would be antisemitic for us to dominate the elective without condemning Hasan first, so let’s make that the center of conversation for 6+ weeks. This is very important to our base, it’s an 80-20 issue right? Wait what’s that?..”
but November and 2028 could be literally the easiest layups ever
what are Dems offering that will make people actually vote for them? fuckin nothing.
They are a mirror to this shit, the last thing they want is to promote an actual electoral aversion to ghoulishness
You are so right, but you and me both know they will find a way to fuck it up and have a razor-thin margin at best.
No longer contributing to the Reich, better move them along
hospice is supposed to be for palliative care, like you were dying anyway and we give you the good drugs to make it less painful for a while.
They want it to be more painful, to punish them for being unproductive and costly.
if they’re dying they weren’t MAHA so why are we spending anything on them at all
That one Amanda Bynes character be like
